Barbara Blackburn

Advocacy is what you do when you are actively supporting a cause such as expanding the emphasis on technology in your school.

Rigor is more about quality than quantity and focuses on depth of understanding, this is particularly true in career technical learning. 

It’s important for teachers to provide opportunities for students to take responsibility for learning.

Barbara Blackburn, Ph.D., reflects on her time as a teacher and how she handled chronic absenteeism with struggling students.

There are specific strategies that will help students, teachers, and families connect and build relationships to lead to Student Success.

4 Ways to Implement Change. The four stages of the BASE model reflect a commitment to continuous improvement in schools.

With academic discourse, whether it is in response to a teacher’s question, discussion with other students, or generating questions, there are common problems.

Exit slips are a popular strategy for receiving instant feedback on a student’s level of mastery, explaining what they learned during the lesson

Rigorous Assessments – Incorporating higher levels of thinking in assignments will ultimately lead to increased learning.